Jason Seidel grew up in Maryland, and completed his undergraduate training in psychology at Reed College, a remarkable liberal arts institution in Portland, Oregon. There, he was awarded two Commendations for Academic Excellence by the Division of Philosophy, Education, Religion, and Psychology. After college, he worked as a Research Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health’s Clinical Psychobiology Branch through the early nineties, earning several awards for excellent and outstanding performance.

Dr. Seidel completed his graduate training at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology, where he was presented with a Colorado Graduate Fellowship in 1994, and an award for Outstanding Contribution to the Graduate Student Body in 1997, after leading the program’s student steering committee for two years. He fulfilled his pre-doctoral internship at the Counseling Center of the State University of New York at Buffalo. His doctoral paper, “Empirical Evidence Disconfirms the Biopsychiatric Ontology of Mental Disorders” has been made available online for several years, and has been read widely by psychologists, psychiatrists, and other practitioners in the mental health field. In 1998, he was awarded the Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree.

Between 1999 and 2001, he served as an adjunct assistant professor of clinical and forensic psychology, and doctoral competency examiner at the University of Denver.

In 2001, Dr. Seidel completed advanced trauma therapy training at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He is a past associate (2005-2007) of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change; and has consulted for psychjourney.com, psychinsider.com, and goodtherapy.org.

His work has been published by the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Colorado Psychological Association, and National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers; and he has presented at the international Heart and Soul of Change conference and for the Colorado Society of Psychologists in Private Practice. He currently serves as Senior Associate and Advisory Board Member for the International Center for Clinical Excellence, and also volunteers as Advisor to the Board of Directors for Threshold Passages, Inc., a mentoring organization for teenage boys.

Dr. Seidel has been in private practice in the Cherry Creek district of Denver since 1998, and welcomes new patients.

Please feel free to call for an appointment or to ask any questions you may have: 303-377-0999